After Val Kilmer’s tragic passing was announced Wednesday, fans immediately reminisced about the iconic shirtless volleyball scene from the original 1986 Top Gun movie that launched the actor into ...

As Iceman in 'Top Gun,' Val Kilmer, who died yesterday at 65, brought all of his warmth and intelligence to bear.

The “SNL” episode in question would have featured an iconic cameo from Tom Cruise that the audience wasn’t expecting.

The sequel follows in the footsteps of its predecessor by including high-octane aerial dogfights, Cruise as a hotheaded maverick (!) and some really very homoerotic scenes involving the buff, ...

"Top Gun" fans are bidding farewell to Val Kilmer, the magnetic actor who commanded the screen as everyone from Batman to Iceman. Fans mourned the actor using his "Iceman" nickname from one of his ...

Editor's note: In 2020, USA TODAY editor Barbara VanDenburgh reported on the emotional and striking revelations from Val Kilmer's memoir. Kilmer, then 60, had recently starred in the sequel to "Top ...

Top Gun was a breakthrough for Kilmer, who played Iceman, the rival to Cruise's hotshot Maverick at the US Navy's academy for elite fighter pilots. On screen, saving the USA from Soviet MiG jets was ...

And so, in a slightly shaggier way, was his rival and compatriot in “Top Gun,” Val Kilmer. Kilmer was a classic ... he was like a malevolent beach bum, the kind of person who won the ...

Val Kilmer was “the coolest cat,” remembers his Top Gun co-star Barry Tubb ... and the other actors “all at this beach hotel, riding motorcycles down hallways and things.” ...

Iconic actor Val Kilmer, who last appeared in “Top Gun: Maverick” in 2022, died Tuesday night. Kilmer’s daughter, Mercedes Kilmer, 33, confirmed the actor’s death in an email to the ...

Kilmer is in Top Gun for all of 10 ... every scene he’s in. Why? Val Kilmer was a movie star and a unique actor who balanced two distinct vibes: easygoing beach bum and “heavy is the head ...